Category: Mail

This is from Elena in the city of Novosibirsk.  She sent me this quote “Let it be as it will be, because somehow, be done.  Indeed, there was never so that there was no way.”

She also writes “I am a student at the Institute of the lawyer.  Engaged in playing tennis and I love to create beautiful things with his hands.”

I love Postcrossing.

This is my first odd-shaped postcard.  Amy sent the card and included this quote:  “Doing what you like is Freedom, like what you do is Happiness.”

A little birthday greeting from my college adviser.  I knew her as a professor in Missouri.  Then she moved to Massachusetts, then North Carolina and now she’s back home in Texas, state of her birth.  

This is from Tanja in Austria.  She has the most beautiful handwriting I’ve seen on a postcard and reports that her favorite book is The Hearing Trumpet by Lenora Carrington.

Here is a beautiful postcard from Germany, sent on the day after my birthday, which Hans was kind to note.  Hans worked on a ship and has visited many parts of the US.

I was curious to see how many postcards I have received from Germany because it seems like a lot, so I checked my stats.  Yep.  A lot of postcards from Germany. Double the next two highest numbers.

(This chart is from the future, generated on 11/15)

• Postcards by country

• 		Country	Received▲	Avg travel (Received)
  1		Australia	1	40 days
  2		Austria	1	23 days
  3		Brazil	1	38 days
  4		Bulgaria	1	11 days
  5		Finland	1	18 days
  6		Hong Kong	1	21 days
  7		Japan	1	10 days
  8		Latvia	1	7 days
  9		Poland	1	10 days
  10		Portugal	1	12 days
  11		Romania	1	8 days
  12		Singapore	1	25 days
  13		Spain	1	7 days
  14		Sweden	1	11 days
  15		Ukraine	1	17 days
  16		Czech Republic	2	8 days
  17		Belarus	3	30 days
  18		Taiwan	3	21 days
  19		Netherlands	4	9 days
  20		Russia	5	28 days
  21		U.S.A.	5	6 days
  22		Germany	10	10 days

This is from my friend Susan, wishing me a happy birthday.
 

And this was a fabulous piece of mail from a fellow Postcrosser.
The envelope, which was handmade.
 

A letter, written on that awesome thin paper.  It contained a quote from Maria Montessori, “Help to do it myself.”
 

Then the actual postcard, which came from Ikea.  That heart with the map on it is a bookmark.
 

Look at the back!  So incredibly pretty!

Thanks so much Marja.  I love this.

This is from Alex, who lives in Kouty “where lives about 30,000 people.”  Alex likes cycling, heavy metal music and horror films.  This is not the first Heavy Metal fan from a formerly Easter-Block country that I’ve run across on Postcrossing.

You are familiar with Varna, Bulgaria, no?  Me neither.  But this postcard leads me to believe it’s great!  Anastasiya is from Sevastopol, Ukraine, but now lives in Varna.  Her three facts:  She likes to travel with her family, she likes to joke and  “I dream to lose my weight.”

Me too, Anastasiya.  But not all of it.  I’d like to keep some.

This was a great postcard, front and back.

Those Germans are quite enthusiastic Postcrossers.  Sometimes it seems as if every other postcard is from there.  Minden, according to Wolf, who sent me the postcard, was founded in 800 and has about 80,000 residents.  It’s in the region of the North Rhine.

I love this postcard, only my second in the mail-art category.  Is it not beautiful?  From the number of Postcrossers who request NO mail-art I assumed that I would be receiving a lot of it.  But it has shown itself to be rare, even though my profile says that I love it.
 

Aside from creatively annotating the stamp, I learned that one of J.D.’s favorite places in the universe is Powell’s Books.  Also that Allen Ginsburg once had to physically move her out of the way because she was blocking the door to the men’s room and also that her favorite movie is Bull Durham. With her favorite line being “don’t THINK. It can only hurt the ball club.”

I kind of think JD and I could be friends.

Dana brought me this postcard from Norway.  She and her husband took a trip there this summer.  They loved it, and, among other things, discovered that Dana’s family comes from an area that is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.